Ok another update. Now categories are converting properly. Those of you that are running the converter a second time you might have to install a fresh copy of SMF. I am going to be adding checks so that you dont have to make a fresh install each time. File posted in first post.

I had recently upgraded my yabb to 2.1 ...no mods installed. I have downloaded and installed smf 1-1 rc3 and that is working fine. I downloaded the yabb 2.1 converter and it will not see my yabb installation. I have checked the paths with my ISP and they are correct!?

As far as I am aware yabb 2.1 doesn't have a settings.pl it uses Paths.pl. Am unable to make the convert.php see the Yabb installation. I am confused since basically the path should be very similar to the smf one .. /httpdocs/smf should be replaced with /cgi-bin/yabb and it should work as far as I can see but that is not the case :-(